Anyone ever struggle figuring out a pattern? Like you’re fishing a squarebill up shallow bam got hit, and get one. ok cool up they are shallow so you start fishing shallow with cranks, t rig, jerkbaits, flip cover, nothing no more hits.
then you cast out deeper fish a jig, or a tube and get one, they are out deeper, so you start fishing deeper again nothing.
Or you catch one on jerkbait up shallow so you fish the jerkbait, nothing, then you get one on a bladed jig on tree, then nothing, then, then a jig on deeper get one then nothing. Hitting random fish with random baits.
You think you figured them out but it’s just random fish, even in the spring time. You only may get 2 dink fish on the pattern you think you found only to not get bit
Last year was brutal, I just couldn’t figure them out, I was grinding for 2 or 3 small fish and not figuring them out. No matter what I threw, where I fished or how I fished. When I think I found the pattern it’s over. The last 2 times I’ve gone out, first 2 trips of the year, there’s been no pattern.